B & E playfields went out today. B was a grade A, & E had tiny weep holes to yellow arrows & minor surface burn from sanding. These were to guys buying earlier ones that were not happy. C is a grade A but has a milky Shoot Again lense, & some other lenses have silvering ingrained to bottom of some lenses. If your not prepaid there are going to be a constant supply of Seawitch playfields with some issues. I hope to get more Grade A level playfields going forward. Already started getting production going on the 20 Seawitch playfields picked up from the sign shop that does my cnc work. Another 20 go in the end of June to be ready for July.

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I have been working on new old stock playfield stock (about 100 for Seawitch production). The last bunch have received finished clear & will be picked up this weekend. The 10 mostly Star Gazer & a few Seawitch still need to get ready for the printer. Last night was a heavy beer drinking night, so I will respond to pm tonight or Saturday. Here are the 9 of 20 with lenses installed & ready for sanding, & the 3 Seawitch. I will reach out to prepaid guys & new people interested in ones not grade A this weekend when the others also come in.

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Picked up the latest playfields finished clear + 1 previous Seawitch that got fixed. So picture of previous 3 are A, D, & F to be graded. Same with the latest will be graded, G,H,I, & J. 1 Star Gazer. The clear coat guy is now leaving on the masking on the bottom from printing. I remove to roll on gray paint. It will be early July to get all remaining Star Gazer & Seawitch into printing. Along with the next 20 Seawitch. 10 have lenses in & I will be doing the remaining 10 this week.
There is a Special package deal ready to go: playfield D has a number of lenses that have a bumpy surface to some lenses in the middle right & top right blue 1 inch lenses. $500 US Seawitch backglass that has tiny pinhole depressions to surface of tempered glass (art on back is perfect) $200 US + $50 US shipping to USA only on the package. If there is only interest on the playfield + shipping I will go that route in 2 days.

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There should be 3-5 ready for prepaid guys. If you figure you should be in this group send me a pm. I got the playfields painted on the back. Still need to grade them.

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There are 2 more left grade A. 1 guy reached out. I believe I am 5 - 8 on that list. My focus is to keep pegging away. There are others farther down or refunded. So help me out from trying to track down through pages of pm & emails. I still have not found my master list from my move. There were playfields with some insert alignment off. I will update late tonight.

#8 & #16 I think are receiving a playfield already there. There are 2 that are Grade A. F has a shoot again lense with a molding line towards the bottom. A has a slightly foggy shoot again lense & I thought it also was a little wavy clear to the upper right Special & to the right. I now cannot see it so maybe it is just a lighting angle. It should be a hidden area mostly anyways. All the 3 orange lense sizes from Foremost Plastics have issues, very few are perfect!
I will be going away to a cottage this weekend. 3 Seawitch & a Star Gazer missed a late pick up by UPS today. This evening I got 2 Seawitch ready for the printer, 2 more are getting fixed. The next 20 new generation playfield cnc ones are standing by, & the 10 will get the inserts glued next week.
There are 2 playfields with some lenses off, & are priced at $500 US + $50 US shipping to USA for new customers not prepaid. G & H pictures below.

I will sort out the pictures & more info late Sunday. I am off in the morning & will be on vacation for a day+.

Back from the cottage & going to the workshop. There are 2 playfields with some lenses off & for sale discounted to $500 US + $50 US shipping to new USA only customers in 2020.

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Yes these 2 must be the mix of 24 test playfields cut & the final adjustments made. Early ones were also off up top lane blues. These are mostly 10k green bonus, shoot again, left extra ball lense, & maybe the top of yellow arrows (mostly left one). People have a look & really have to look for it (since you usually do not see it on current reproductions. Back during the original game manufacturing many or all might of been used if they did not have better playfields ready for the line. Star Gazer was way easier than Seawitch to get into final production. The latest 20 production ones on thicker old game board stock I want to get a few printed before I get next 20 cut. I have to fill in with epoxy the 20 here for shooter gauge. They did the opposite of making dimple marks, drilled larger holes through. The early tests have a large hole at the bottom (which I did not fix). Shit happens with contractors, & maybe myself.
Here are pictures of the 5 Seawitch & 1 Star Gazer playfields ready for pick up late Monday.

Also I still have the 2 Seawitch backglass with tiny pinhole size depressions to the front of the tempered glass (maybe 6 -12 overall, art is perfect on the backside). So I will discount to $200 US & $50 US shipping I will do for free. So if you are just following playfields thread, & you have a poor Seawitch glass here is your chance to get a cheap replacement to USA only!

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Thanks! July 1 was my 56th birthday. So drinking & doing time with my wife of 31 years July 15. So back to more playfield production. My wife will not let me visit my brother in Austin, Texas this year. Here we had no new Covid cases for over 2 weeks. Just got 2 new ones from travel out of province. Sucks I could of got airfare return for $300 US! We are lucky only about 65 deaths out of a million, 54 were from a single large senior complex. Stay safe & wear a mask!

I got the inserts ready for the next 10 of 20 old stock playfield blanks. The others are ready for sanding. The 2 discounted ones are still here & might be going to Ebay.

So there will be one available with some lense alignment issues. I think 2 are ready from printing & will get picked up late Friday or next week. It will be a few weeks for me to get others done for finish clear. The contractor does 4 or more each time. So I am working on a few for printing next week. Marco Specialties has a Star Gazer, & has not listed the Classic Stern Yellow Opaque Ribbed Arrows yet (100). I probably will have a lot available if others need that one for playfield production. Sanding the 10, & have lenses ready to be installed in other 10. Next group of 20 Seawitch on old playfield stock.

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Almost finished the inserts on the 20 next generation Seawitch on old pinball gameboard stock. I looked at what is left & only 1 Seawitch to get ready for printing. There are 6 Star Gazer I am getting ready for printing. My next tempered glass order should be here in early August.

So I am getting close to having hopefully all 20 next generation Seawitch printed in August. I have the last 1 to glue 4 inserts. 18 are or ready for sanding.

Final Seawitch is going in for printing this week. Now on to the next 20 next generation of up to 100 playfields. 18 are ready for sanding.

The last 6 are getting close to printing. Then I will get 8 -12 cut that should meet any demand to the end of the year in September. It will be from 4 x 8 sheets like all Star Gazer production. The 6 are likely all spoken for unless there are discount ones.

So I needed a breather from pinball playfields. The heat & work load here doing my regular job plus other tasks over Covid wore me out. So I should be getting back to playfields on Monday. Had a minor emergency visit to the hospital from work. My province is now planning & getting aggressive for the next wave of Covid. Everyone for the most part will be wearing masks in public places the end of the month. We have very few cases or death from the pandemic in Atlantic Canada. My city job 6 days a week continues (1 of only 2 union workers left). They have assigned more duties to me to fill in for public pools that remain closed. There was 4 workers in my area, 1 has been off for close to a year & my co worker a term employee was ended in April.

Thanks spending the weekend outside the city this weekend. Back to production on Monday night. The clear coat guy has also taken 2 or more weeks off with a wedding at his house.

So this has been a hot summer here with no AC at the shop. The clear coat contractor has 4 playfields finished. I have had nothing ready for printing in weeks. The weather is still hot & I will slowly get some ready over the next few weeks. Sunday August 16 my regular 6 day a week City job returns to 1-9 pm shifts. So I will be able to work a few hours in cooler temperatures. 20 Seawitch & remaining few Star Gazer get done hopefully before Fall. I still have not got lense order done & might be into the Fall for more playfields. Marco Specialties & Northern Precision Plastics have not responded to how many to produce. I will go 1000 of each or 2500 if Marco Specialties is buying 1000-1500. There is a world wide shortage of blue & green trans in 3/4" & 1" blue. I will have pictures in a week of the cleared playfields.
With Covid since March my employer has ended 1 contract employee work, 1 has been off with a sick wife who has passed away, other worker is a lead hand, & myself to look over City Public Swimming Pools. My workload has grown into other areas, & if you do the numbers the bulk of the work falls on me!